Corporate Government, not for Abe
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on June 23, 2010 10:56 AM in Politics
Corporate Government, not for Abe
6-22-10
Government of, by and for: corporations? Not what Abraham Lincoln had to say. At Gettysburg in 1863 President Lincoln gave a speech for the ages to dedicate a cemetery for the fallen soldiers of the Civil War. He said they died so that a “nation might liveâ€. He said that people would not remember what was being said that day. He was right about some people. These men’s deaths were about a “government of the people, by the people, for the people, (that) shall not perish from the earthâ€.
Unfortunately, a majority of the nation’s Supreme Court forgot these words. That majority, mostly members of a little known conservative organization of lawyers called theFederalist Society, said in Citizen’s United that we have instead a government of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation.
Did those soldiers die in vain? This is one time I agree with the Teabaggers: let us take this country back.
Patrick Hunter
Carbondale, CO
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